Shall we play a game?

Morning

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

I've not added anything to the javascript TV clocks for a while, so here's something particularly silly – It's the logo silkscreen printed on the front of the "GNAT" hardware from the 90s, turned into a working clock zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

Looking inside a TSL MDU that can be controlled over IP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5bQ...

BBC Two have suspended programming by the looks of things

Looking inside a TSL MDU that can be controlled over IP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5bQ...

Always good to start the day off with a few alarms.

bit of a spike in traffic to NMS Ceefax today, courtesy of @tomscott.com's mailing list:

Super pleased to say the PFC livestream has just crossed 500 likes. Which works out to somewhere around 1.2 likes per day. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

My latest subrack invention produces (HD)-SDI from a Raspberry Pi on one small card.

More things should be controlled via teletext datacast packets, I say...

Incidentally - the entire NMS Ceefax recreation has been going for over 10 years now. Yeah. Seriously.

The Pages from Ceefax live stream has now been running for a full year - as of about 5pm (GMT). www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OU...

My latest video is looking inside a 32² matrix from Pro-Bel. I promise I'm not only going to be looking at routers! Just so happens to be what I've been working on this week. youtu.be/mk1wqheh6TA

You asked for it many times, it's finally here. You can now switch TV channels between BBC1 and Channel 4, the latter of which will now let you play Bamboozle!

Long shot, but would anyone happen to have the control/config software for a Probel Halo 32x32 SDI matrix around somewhere? Can't seem to find it online anywhere.

Looking at the circuitry inside a pair of Quartz 16x16 Video Matrices (routers) youtu.be/pYm4DO4bZaU

I’m sure I speak for all television presentation website owners when I say this: we run our sites in our spare time. We do it because we care, not because it’s our job. We add the material we actually have, when we have time to do it. Please don’t tell us how to run our websites.

Moment of appreciation for the lady who wrapped my eBay parcel. What a perfect job

Here's a video looking at my subrack crates and the custom cards that run in them www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD1S...

so the question is, should I recreate Aertel to go with NMS Ceefax???

🟪 TX | This evening's edition of ITV News Calendar (South) took a rare look behind-the-scenes at the Belmont transmitter, marking the 60th anniversary of transmissions from the mast. >> LINK: youtu.be/vgYe3jJd-vU?...

Er, well I must say this was totally unexpected. Apparently more people are interested in my old junk than I'd have ever thought.

Looking inside an early 80s BBC Audio link transmitter. It transmits on 859.8 (or 854.5) MHz, at around 12 watts. youtu.be/Ia82aHWLI-k

Less fascist-owned data-hoovering slop, and more of this on the internet please 👇

The show continues on Pages From Ceefax. You can still keep an eye on the news, weather and football scores - great for background use. Stream has been up for nearly a year now, if I can hold it together. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

Last couple of hours of Christmas music on Pages From Ceefax. I can't tell what time it will officially "switch over" at, simply because I haven't decided and it depends on what else I'm up to tomorrow. Assume late evening anyway. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago. This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Necessity is the mother of invention. (spotted in work)

Massive thanks to @illarterate.bsky.social for the Christmas graphics on Ceefax! nmsceefax.co.uk

Obligatory ~annual photo of Pages From Ceefax central control

Grumpy PC is now in control

Just a reminder that Pages From Ceefax goes all Christmassy with suitably festive music tonight at ten o'clock (GMT). Assuming of course I can persuade my PC to boot. It's like an old diesel engine & needs thoroughly warmed up to have a hope of working. youtube.com/@AvroVulcanXH607/live

Just had a brief scroll through X for the first time in months. Folks, I think we collectively made the right decision.

I got to thinking last night, as one does, about why lately I don't seem to have accomplished anything on the two million projects I have going - and suddenly realised how utterly rediculous my own thought process is. www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/blether/deci...

It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

This is the innards of an MPEG-2 coder - the sort one might use to encode video for freeview/freesat. Or at least, may have done 10 years ago - this one was made in 2008 and has since been retired. Rather interesting & rare chance to get a poke inside at what makes it tick.

More exact timing details will be released closer to the time. Most likely 5 minutes before it goes live...

Pages from Ceefax will begin its annual Christmas Tape outing on the 20th of December - continuing until the 3rd of January. Thanks for your continued support, and I hope regular listeners will enjoy. www.youtube.com/@AvroVulcanX...

I spent today extracting image data from some interesting eprom dumps... Figuring out the fairly simple addressing, and shuffling everything around and recombining into a single file that could be decoded as a YUV video frame. 🙂

It's cold outside, but not to worry - I'll fire me clock up for heat.

Ceefax used to be a big source of news for me before I had a laptop and internet access (and wayyyy before I had a smartphone) so this really takes me back 😅 nmsceefax.co.uk by @nmsni.co.uk

yet another reminder of what we miss from old(er) YouTube. Still shamelessly rewatching these occasionally.

So yeah, third major cloud provider to mess up in 2 months. I say again... Why aren't YOU self-hosting?